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Whether you are cooking and baking at home or you are a food and beverage manufacturer, home recipes and commercial formulations that call for eggs often use egg replacers. This can be for a variety of reasons, such as:
Soy is arguably one of the more controversial nutrition topics. On the plus side, soy is rich in nutrients, and diets containing it seem to provide health benefits, such as lower blood sugar levels, improved heart health, fewer menopause symptoms, and perhaps even a lower risk of certain cancers.
On the other hand, some people are concerned about soy-rich diets being truly healthy, and in fact, perhaps even being bad for your health. For instance, some fear that eating too much soy may increase the risk of breast cancer, hinder thyroid function, or have feminizing effects in men, to name a few. Furthermore, any soy you get in the US is most certainly a GMO (94 percent of the soybean crops in the United States were genetically modified to be herbicide-tolerant), which has implications for your health (think Glyphosate and Leaky Gut Syndrome leading to chronic inflammation).
This article reviews the latest scientific evidence to determine whether eating soy is more likely to positively or negatively affect your health.
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People tend to have a lot of questions about gluten-free baking and using gluten-free flours in recipes in the areas of what flours substitutes to use, and how to compensate for the function that the gluten would have performed, and ultimately, how to produce a result the is not a poor facsimile of the all-purpose flour version.
This is the first in a two-part series including Baking Without Faking and The Mystery of Gluten-Free
…This is a pretty simple recipe yet it is very satisfying to put together. The aroma, appearance, flavors and texture of this savory dish are all about comfort from a wet and cold of a winter day.
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Zucchini pasta might, at first, seem a little odd in concept. But once you try it you will probably add it a frequent recipe. Not only that, it is pretty fun to make and kids love participating in this entertaining process. But the big win is how healthy and incredibly inexpensive this dish is.
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A pot roast is another traditional comfort food! This recipe is so incredibly simple and the flavor will knock your socks off. If you cook this in the crockpot, set to low, you could probably start it just as you leave for work. When you come back, your home will be filled with the most tantalizing and entreating aromas!…
If ever there was a comfort food that takes you back to all those good feelings that come with a home-cooked meal prepared by your mom, it is probably meatloaf. But as time goes on, as much as we love meatloaf, it is pretty high in saturated fats and cholesterol, and may not fit your desire for healthier eating. Here is a fabulous recipe from the book, The Dude Diet, by Serena Wolf. The best thing is that not only is this easy, and low cost, everyone loves it, even the kids!…
I use tri-colored baby carrots for this dish because they are so wonderfully colorful. The French seem partial to tarragon as you find it in so many of their recipes, especially sauces such as Béarnaise Sauce. Tarragon’s distinctive yet subtle herbal flavor is particularly well suited to use with fish and chicken, and as part of vinaigrettes and sauces. But I have to say, that the understated flavor and aroma of tarragon combined with butter and honey make for some sublimely delicious carrots….
This smoked salmon recipe is super easy, fast, low effort, low cost, and reliably produces a fabulous smoked salmon. The aroma is delicate yet mesmerizing, the meat is super moist and tender, and the flavor is out of this world. Best of all, this dish is equally good cold as it is warm….
This is an amazingly wonderful variation on the French cassoulet, but one that is little easier and less expensive than the traditional recipes, yet the aroma, flavor, and texture of this recipe is every bit as delightfully delicious as it is inexpensive.
Don’t be put off by this being a French recipe. This is not the sort of thing that is only achieved by a French chef. Yes, it is a little involved, but it is still pretty easy to follow and achieve this spectacularly savory and sumptuous meal.
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